ISBN 9788182050327

ISBN-10

8182050324

Binding

Hard Back

Number of Pages

323 Pages

Language

(English)

Subject

Social work

The term social development has come to acquire a very important and new salience in the literature and practice of development. In India visionaries, social reformers and leaders of India's independence movement propounded a wider concept of social development. This encyclopaedia analyses social development in India with a macroperspective, in relation to programmes initiated under the Five Year Plans. It examines Rural Development, Population and Family Planning; Poverty Alleviation; Poverty Monitoring of India; Women and Child Development; Globalisa-tion and Women's Economic Advancement; Literacy and Education and Ecology; Environment and Sustainable Development